His 19-year-old director's first feature film "I Killed My Mother" is full of protagonists, that is, half of his grievances towards his mother during his growth process, and he has a daunting title. French-language media praised him while calling him an "enfant terrible" (enfant terrible). In "Lawrence on Both Sides", Lawrence's mother was the object of his cries and reliance after all his grievances. Growing up in a single-parent family, Dolan puts a rare image of a father in this movie, but he is just a service character who has no ability to take care of himself and will only hinder the love of mother and child. After not entering the main competition unit of Cannes and returning in anger with only the queer palm he hated, Dolan put the stage play "Tom's Farm Trip" on the screen. In the interweaving of mysterious and damp death, sadomasochism, and the breath of a wet newborn calf, Dolan still uses heavy pen and ink to describe the role of a strong mother who has just lost her son, and has the ability to construct a triangular relationship with his good at. . But so far, even though Lawrence cried hysterically and smashed other people's phone calls after receiving his mother's phone call at the stranger's house, Dolan's mother's plot still has not been shown affectionately. He put a Mommy necklace on his gold medal partner Anne Durval, and caused the teenager smiling at Lawrence on the balcony to suffer from Attention Deficit Disorder, and finally Wang Yang arbitrarily interpreted this obsessive theme.
The maternal love in "Mommy" should be exclusive, exclusive, and exclusive, so that in this single-parent family there is a lyrics that tells the mother One Direction "You are beautiful because you are not aware of your beauty" The role of a handsome and decent neighbor's lawyer can completely disrupt the parent-child balance that Steve understands. Steve stood on stage in karaoke and sang Andre Bocelli's "Vivo Per Lei" (Live for Her) cautiously and cautiously for his mother. It was incompatible with the bar layout or the character image. Always keep the high-intensity image down, and the laughter of his mother and neighbor uncles back to his mother broke the chains of violence in his body. The existence of his mother in Steve's young life is the most influential element on his personality, and the decisive element in his behavior is the focus of his life different from teenagers of the same age. Dolan portrays such a pair of socially marginalized mothers and sons, and can maximize, extreme, and dramatize this interdependent parent-child relationship and the son's attachment to the mother.
This extreme attachment to the mother is first manifested in words. Or many Lan threw all the swear words in Quebec French into the script of "Mummy", and even the tacky-clothed Diana with a two-pound keychain was laughing at the office. The security guard on the other side of the walkie-talkie could use Steve. Enrich your vocabulary. Steve was warned by taxi drivers, supermarket cashiers, and neighbors not to use this language to talk to his mother, but in his family environment, in other words, in the parent-child relationship between the two, Steve learned to use Swear words express intimacy and love. In addition, this fascination is also manifested in body movements. Steve quarreled with his mother in the living room and pinched his neck against the wall. Diana gasped after fighting back in self-defense. I apologized and said that my mother didn’t want to hurt you, but you choked me. The word suffocation and this series of actions The metaphor can be used in a scene in which Kayla suffering from aphasia presses Steve on the floor. Diana faces the cries of her son’s heart-cracking contradictions, and the love between the mother and the son before and after the film. Find the echo in the straightforward dialogue. While dancing with his mother, Steve stretched his hands on his mother’s chest, but was knocked off by his mother immediately. Dolan did not create an awkward atmosphere; in the dimly lit bedroom, Steve asked his mother affectionately. I kissed her lips afterwards, and the next scene Dolan arranged was Diana's face in the supermarket and said, "Steve, don’t take things randomly," and Diana returned to her role as an absolute mother. . This kind of fascination that only exists in family affection is strengthened, and reaches a certain level, and it touches the "glass ceiling". This subtle boundary is ethical, but it can be seen that Duolan did not cross easily, and walked affectionately on the edge of the red line. , And express this in a hand of Steve in the movie poster.
Dolan loves his hometown of Quebec. In "Mummy", Diana was ridiculed if she could speak French. She said that she could speak French, but not French. Dolan insists on letting the actors speak pure and authentic Quebec French in all of his films. Even French audiences whose mother tongue is French cannot understand the charming accent from beautiful Canada. This led to the release of "Mummy" in France. The French dialogues of the entire film are marked with French subtitles from beginning to end, and all the movies that are at a loss are marked with the words VO (Original Sound Without Subtitles). In addition, the background music in the bar scene near the end of "Lawrence on Both Sides" is the transnational famous song "Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore" by Quebec queen Celine Dion; Steve’s important show showing his and his mother’s proud dance gestures and the relationship between the new balanced triangle characters was also accompanied by Celine Dion’s "On Ne Change Pas", and Steve also said aloud " She is our national treasure". When asked in an interview with "Ms. Figaro" if he would like to let Celine Dion act, Dolan immediately used three adjectives to praise her to show his admiration.
In early October 2014, the French newspaper Liberation put the frowning author of "Mommy" on the front page of the newspaper for an unprecedented time, titled "Dolan, Weapon of Mass Seduction". This film, which won thunderous applause in Cannes and was praised by all French audiences, also achieved great success in North America. Many media including Vanity Fair included it in the list of the best movies of 2014. Like "Lawrence on Both Sides", this two-hour film was edited by the director, and Dolan, who was reluctant to discard a scene or even a low-level shallow depth-of-field lens, made the film more than it should be. Dolan’s poorly-qualified soundtrack in "Tom’s Farm Trip" reached the level of "Mummy" and returned to a high level. When the screen was widened for the second time, Rudovico Hinodi’s extremely aggressive String music pushes emotions to the peak and is used to render the rose-colored bittersweet fantasy wedding atmosphere, but like the almost full-length title "White Flag", it gives the audience a feeling of "music with images" instead of a soundtrack. While listening to a lot of classical music and songs from the 1960s and 1970s, he is also deeply influenced by 21st century pop music, just like many contemporary young people. The frequent supermarket scenes in "Mummy" and the scene of Steve dancing with the trolley make people uncontrollably reminiscent of the music video of Rihanna's "We Found Love" directed by Melina Matsoukas. It is shocking. And Lana Del Rey at the end of the film.
After taking enough pictures of his mother's subject matter, Dolan, who was deeply influenced by "Piano Lesson", accepted the jury award from Jane Campion, determined to still use his camera to pay attention to those strong and wise women tirelessly. Like Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho, the ambitious Dolan began to open up the English film market, and successfully invited Casey Bates as the first person to play the role of the mother in the next feature film featuring shining stars. Said that he was "excited to convulsions" because of this. At the age of 21, Duolan confessed in an interview: "If I don't make a movie, I will commit suicide... My movies are not parentheses, they are my life." The film career of this commendable young director is full of countless possibilities. What is most anticipated is that his restless music video director role can be firmly suppressed by his more mature film language in future works. live.
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